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The latest game is Touhou Kikeijuu ~ Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, the 17th main game in the series. It's about how much capitalism blows. Yee haw, pardner. I've heard about Touhou before, but what is it? Touhou is Japanese Discworld. A franchise started as a series of shoot-em-ups made by a dude who calls himself ZUN. Set in a small pocket dimension called Gensokyo out in the Japanese boonies, girls shoot lasers at each other for sport and conflict resolution. Along the way, ZUN uses the setting as commentary and satire of the modern world, covering topics like income inequality and immigration through a fantastic lens and a whole lot of metaphor. If the writing part's not for you, it's easily ignorable, though I don't recommend that! They originated on the PC-98 back in 1996, and has been going ever since. It has since expanded to standalone music, books, manga, different genres of games, and has a thriving fanbase that produces way, way too much content. That part's calmed down a lot in the last few years, but it's certainly not gone. They're pretty good games and the official writing is great, but it'd be disingenuous to say that's the typical draw to the series. People mainly get into it 'cuz of the music, which is excellent, and the oodles of fanart of the characters, which can be really hit or miss. Touhou has, in its over 20 years of history, managed to become exceptionally influential. It's in the official Guinness Book of World Records for something that's not actually representative of its reach, but it's very appropriate that it's there to begin with. It finds its way everywhere, and once you know what to look for, you'll probably start to notice it. Just a few examples, It pops up in manga a lot, since a lot of mangaka got their start doing Touhou doujins (hobbyist fan-comics.) The character Lux from League of Legends is a whole-character reference to Marisa, It's indie darling Undertale's second-biggest inspiration. Sounds cool, where should I start? I have no idea. Like, no, really, there's no good place to start. You new to shoot-em-ups? Maybe 7, 8, 10, or 13. Experienced and want a challenge? 11, 12, 15. Want to start from the beginning? 6, although I don't recommend that one. You want to start from the real beginning? 1 is really weird, don't tell me I didn't warn you. What about fighting games? Yeah, there's six fighting games. Really, if you want to play one, the latest, 15.5 is likely your best bet. This one's not listed with the main games in the link up there, since the fighting games are developed by a different group with ZUN's supervision. This one's getting a port to the Switch! Or how about before you jump into the games, you want to do some reading? There's official manga and some books. The books can all be read on the wiki, and the manga is really easy to track down. One of them, Forbidden Scrollery, is one of the only official products to be released in English, and was excellent. I recommend picking it up. Regardless, the official games are being released in an easily-purchasable way by ZUN himself, on Steam. If you click up on the logo up there or here, you can get all the ones that have been put on there already. They're easy to track down for free, but c'mon, toss him some support as you will. 6-9 aren't likely to be put up as the last few get tossed onto Steam, since he doesn't have the code for those anymore. You mentioned fan stuff... There's a lot of it. Like, way too much. But there's some good stuff, if you know what to look for. Fangames Luna Nights is fantastic. It's a very tightly designed metroidvania with fantastic bosses. Getting a port to the Switch soon with allegedly exclusive content. Highly recommended. Fantasy Maiden Wars is Super Robot Wars, except Better. It features quality of life that the main series doesn't have, tightly designed maps, and interesting bosses (unique, as far as SRW goes!) Currently only available in Japanese. There's some real old, famous ones out there too, like Megamari and Super Marisa Land and whatnot. I don't recommend them; Touhou fangames have only learned qualities like "level design" in the past few years. I'll update this with more new ones as they come out , because there's been kind of a resurgence of good fangames. Music Touhou keeps the doujin music scene alive, single-handedly. If you look up "touhou remix" anywhere you are likely to find hundreds. Have a good time. If you want specific recommendations, Art "Touhou" is Pixiv's single largest media tag with more entries than literally anything else, so, have a good time, I guess! Bkub is still supreme. I started the games and they're really hard! Yep. Playing on Easy is fine, don't let anyone cow you into think you're a worse person for it. 6 has a penalty for playing on Easy, but 16 is completely fine with it. Reimu should be in Smash, right? Exactly correct. mdct fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Dec 28, 2019 |
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mima
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 05:48 |
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Mina is dead, forever
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 05:51 |
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I was vaguely hoping for a poll asking which goast gang you'd join.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 05:59 |
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If I can't join Yuyuko's, what's the point?
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 06:00 |
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put reimu in smash
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Nook posted:put reimu in smash I just played a Smash game for the first time in like a decade last night. There are so many characters But I would probably just keep picking Reimu if she was in it.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 06:04 |
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Posting to say that goast gangs are... Good.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 06:08 |
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Nook posted:put reimu in smash Also Alm and Celica, but that's another fandom entirely.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 06:11 |
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DLsite's english side has all four Fantasy Maiden Wars games (the complete box is not currently on sale on any digital platform), and they're 50% off until the 17th. https://www.dlsite.com/eng/fsr/=/language/en/keyword/sanbondo/age_category%5B0%5D/general/order%5B0%5D/trend/per_page/30/from/fs.header You can use Paypal (and i guess like, 3 credit card options) too, which makes this probably the most accessible option to acquire them right now. Few fangame recommendations from me: Fantasic Danmaku Festival Part II is a extremely pretty sort of remake of Perfect Cherry Blossom, and is worth the buy for the visual/audio experience alone, but it's pretty solid as a shump. Hollow Song of Birds is polished and faithful enough to pass off for a mainline touhou game while doing its own cool things, probably the most accessible of shump fan games, and is free. Soundtrack's on bandcamp if you wanna support the creator after. Tempest of the Heavens and Earth is a 2d sidescroller action game that's pretty intense, if a bit on the short side.Definitely good for the asking price.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 06:22 |
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Doujin music owns. And Akatsuki Records is p great imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N03WobKfdlY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P8iFYvnJOE
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 06:31 |
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Nages posted:mima
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 06:32 |
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This is a drat good op. Also, hooray for a new game release!
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 06:41 |
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I claim this thread in the name of the Almighty and Humanitarian Taoist, Toyosatomimi no Miko. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwvXV097fXc
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 06:42 |
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Setz also does good 2hu fanarts (warning: safebooru, in case that's necessary)
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 07:22 |
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Clarste posted:I was vaguely hoping for a poll asking which goast gang you'd join. Otter gang supremacy imo. Though I guess technically they are turtle gang or sneaky predator gang.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 07:27 |
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 07:32 |
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Are otters sneaky predators IRL? I just thought they grabbed shellfish and smashed them open. Not a ton of subterfuge involved in that.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 07:32 |
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clownpiece
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 07:39 |
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touhou is about ordinary witches as a totally normal witch, I recommend Touhou Shoot the Bullet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R5zSM0QMH0 SmokaDustbowl fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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Clownpiece, but with her own very big game
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 07:51 |
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I made a bunch of touhou music collections from an old 30 gig megatorrent of stuff that was on...the original nyaa I wanna say, and while I haven't updated it in a long time it's still handy, if you're able to afford it and like some of the stuff in there consider buying the albums of the associated artists!quote:MUSIC POOOOOOST Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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SmokaDustbowl posted:clownpiss
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 08:33 |
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I would pay real cold hard dolla dolla bills for a Yakuza touhou fangame.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 10:17 |
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I remember that trailer for a touhou fanime that had Reimu and Sanae as rival landlords with a yakuza motif. Pity it turned into a jiggle show about 10 seconds in.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 11:04 |
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The /toʊhoʊ/ Project.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 11:16 |
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More art of Miko riding Saki for the new thread: https://twitter.com/kagewaka/status/1161164891937497088 https://twitter.com/potetojpg/status/1161153589659574272 https://twitter.com/Potentialplate1/status/1161013751757320195
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 11:35 |
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persuasion needle melts these newhus like butter. i wonder how fast youmu's times are if you are better than me and dont die
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 11:54 |
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The cowboy is good https://twitter.com/kelbremdusk/status/1160968118388318208/photo/1
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i've been feeling the urge to play a mystery dungeon game, hows touhou gensou wanderer? also i support the cowboy
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Argona posted:i've been feeling the urge to play a mystery dungeon game, hows touhou gensou wanderer? it has a lot of content, the voice actors are cute, and the cutscenes are cute (but inane) if you're into that sort of thing. there's a lot of dlc, it's all character options but it does feel a bit sleez/much, only one worth grabbing if you just want one is sakuya since that comes with a dungeon, otherwise they're varying degrees of good but mostly relegated to postgame stuff. game has a bit of a pervy doujin problem at times. not a especially pervasive one, but it happens enough to be noteworthy if that's a instant turnoff. all in all prob a 7.5ish/10 above average but not truly spectacular, worth it for the current price or on sale if you really like touhou, shiren, and are willing to look past the faults. this coming from someone who particularly likes it and is probably more willing to look past its faults than i should be.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 14:16 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5gef0AputM I might no longer play these games as much as i do, but i still love the franchise.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 14:37 |
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Amen brother
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 17:38 |
Touhou Thread 8 - The return of Mima
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 17:43 |
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AdorableStar posted:Touhou Thread 8 - The return of Mima mima has always been here
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 18:18 |
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You know what’s good? Oni
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 18:28 |
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I choose to believe Saki is one-armed and nobody can tell me otherwise.
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 18:57 |
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el dorito posted:mima has always been here
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# ? Aug 13, 2019 19:02 |
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a cartoon duck posted:I choose to believe Saki is one-armed and nobody can tell me otherwise.
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The question of just being Zun art or being a design choice is always a question for the ages.
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